Figure Caption: Personal ornaments: A) reindeer teeth with drilled holes; B) drilled canines of small carnivore (arctic fox?); C) ivory beads; D) drilled reindeer tooth; E) reindeer tooth with a circumference cut; F & G) tubular beads with a circum cut decoration in the middle.
More than 1,500 beads were recovered from Yana RHS, many of which were found in a linear arrangement suggesting that they had been strung at the time of their loss. Type 1 beads (C) are simple rounded beads made of mammoth (ancient elephant) ivory. Manufacturing debris from Type 1 beads was found at the site, suggesting that the process included preparing linear ivory preforms, cutting them into separate beads, drilling them biconically, and finally rounding and polishing them. Type 2 beads (F and G) are tubular, having been made from the long bones of a Pleistocene hare, which were cut into segments, grooved and polished.
Twenty-nine pendants made from animal teeth, mostly bison, musk ox and reindeer, were found at Yana. Mammoth ivory pendants were manufactured from natural splinters or flakes, perforated and shaped.
